About Barclays PLC

Barclays PLC is a holding company. The Company, through its subsidiaries, is a transatlantic consumer and wholesale bank with global reach offering products and services across personal, corporate and investment banking, credit cards and wealth management, anchored in the Company’s two home markets of the United Kingdom and the United States. The Company is organized into two business divisions: the Barclays UK division (Barclays UK) and the Barclays International division (Barclays International). Barclays UK offers everyday products and services to retail customers and small- to medium-sized enterprises based in the United Kingdom. Barclays UK is the ring-fenced bank for the United Kingdom, providing transactional, lending and investment products and services to Wealth and Business Banking customers and clients. Barclays International includes the corporate and Investment Bank, and Consumer, Cards and Payments.

The Chairman of Barclays said the British bank "can and should play a leading role" in tackling climate change, hours after environmental activists sprayed imitation oil on its headquarters to call on the lender to divest from fossil fuels.

Norway's sovereign wealth fund will vote in favour of a resolution committing Barclays to tackling climate change at the bank's annual general meeting on May 7, instead of a separate shareholder one, the fund said on Friday.

Bank results are like optical illusions: Similar numbers can make a different impression depending on the viewer’s angle. That’s the case with Barclays and its Chief Executive Jes Staley’s erstwhile employer, JPMorgan. Both took aggressive charges for bad debt. But what...

A stellar performance from Barclays' investment bank in the first quarter helped to soften a blow to the bank's profits from a 2.1 billion pound bad debt provision to cover loan losses from the coronavirus crisis.

* DESPITE ALL CHALLENGES WE FACE AS A CONSEQUENCE OF COVID-19, I AM CONFIDENT BARCLAYS WILL EMERGE FROM THIS PANDEMIC, WELL PLACED TO CONTINUE TO SERVE OUR CUSTOMERS AND CLIENTS, COMMUNITIES AND ECONOMIES IN WHICH WE OPERATE, AND OUR SHAREHOLDERS."

Barclays set aside 2.1 billion pounds ($2.62 billion) to cover a likely spike in loan losses as thousands of its corporate and consumer borrowers battle to cope with the financial fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Roger Jenkins, a former feted Barclays rainmaker who was acquitted of fraud charges by a London jury two months ago, has now also been cleared of wrongdoing in a separate regulatory investigation, his lawyer said on Tuesday.

Britain's market regulator has ended a civil investigation into former Barclays executive Roger Jenkins over how the bank secured billions of pounds of emergency funding from Qatar during the credit crisis, Jenkins' lawyer said on Tuesday.

Sherborne Investors said on Thursday it would withhold its vote to reappoint Barclays Chief Executive Jes Staley in the bank's annual general meeting to prevent fresh boardroom turmoil as the bank grapples with the COVID-19 fallout.

Sherborne Investors said on Thursday it would withhold its vote against Barclays Chief Executive Jes Staley in the lender's upcoming general meeting, to prevent fresh boardroom turmoil as the bank grapples with the fallout from COVID 19.